Business Development Manager - Forestry & Groundcare Machinery in Birmingham

We're looking for a Business Development Manager to develop UK sales for a broad range of specialist machinery, equipment and attachments.

Forestry is a major target market, alongside groundcare and other sectors where specialist mobile machinery is used.

This is a home-based, UK-wide sales role for someone who understands machinery, can talk credibly with customers and enjoys turning opportunities into orders.

c.£40,000 basic + bonus + company car

You'll be responsible for growing sales across the UK, developing new customers while also building relationships with existing accounts.

You'll be:

• Identifying and winning new business across the UK

• Developing sales within forestry, groundcare and related markets

• Building relationships with contractors, operators and equipment users

• Visiting customers to understand their applications and requirements

• Demonstrating machinery and recommending the right solution

• Selling equipment, machinery and attachments

• Preparing quotations and progressing opportunities through to order

• Developing existing accounts and identifying additional opportunities

• Attending exhibitions, demonstrations and industry events

• Managing your own diary, pipeline and sales activity

There's a big potential market to go after, so this will suit someone who likes getting out in front of customers rather than sitting behind a laptop waiting for enquiries.

You don't need to have sold exactly the same machinery before.

You will need some relevant market knowledge, ideally gained selling machinery or equipment into forestry and/or professional groundcare.

Your background could include:

• Forestry machinery or equipment

• Groundcare machinery

• Agricultural machinery

• Compact tractors

• Professional mowing or turf equipment

• Arboricultural equipment

• Attachments and implements

• Plant or specialist mobile machinery

We're equally happy to consider someone from the smaller end of the groundcare machinery market who is ready to step up into larger, more specialist equipment.

What matters is that you understand machinery and applications, can build credibility with customers and have the commercial instinct to spot an opportunity and turn it into business.

This isn't about selling from a catalogue.

Customers will have different applications and requirements, so you'll need to understand what they're trying to achieve and recommend the right equipment for the job.

You'll have the freedom to manage your own territory, backed by an established specialist engineering business with strong technical and product knowledge behind you.

For someone who knows the market, there is significant scope to develop sales across the UK.

£40,000 basic salary

Bonus

Company car

Home based

UK-wide territory

If you're currently selling forestry, groundcare, agricultural or specialist machinery and fancy taking on a broader UK-wide role, we'd like to hear from you.
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